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Tala Madani: One Point Perspective

About This Project

The students will start by discussing and identifying the vocabulary of one-point perspective and the characteristics of it. Using Tala Madani’s recent artwork as a starting point we will analyze how she portrays depth on a 2-dimensional surface. The use of overlapping colors (or clouds) in Tala Madani’s artwork will also be brought to attention. The students will interpret these ideas into their own one-point perspective painting, exploiting depth and the use of overlapping colors.

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About the artist

Tala Madani’s paintings and animation approach issues of gender and taboo through humor, absurdity, and the grotesque. In her gestural style, male figures often appear in ridiculous physical scenarios-disemboweling themselves, vomiting on one another-which result out ofRead more

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